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	<title>Green Langford &#187; agriculture</title>
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		<title>Family pushing to reestablish community garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Edward Hill &#8211; Goldstream News Gazette Published: April 21, 2011 11:00 AM Updated: April 21, 2011 11:25 AM Christina Willing opens the tall wire gate to what was once a community garden, now overgrown with broom and largely forgotten. She scowls at a sign that reads “Willing Park Closed.” About 10 years ago the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Hazelwood Rd Construction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[lands and farms are being taken over by housing subdivisions This semi-rural area in a flood plain is subjected to heavy construction as houses are levelled, soil is scraped and farmers try to cope with the new reality. There will only a chain link fence separating a herd of cattle from the new subdivision, with [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting our Farmland</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dean Murdock Saanich Councillor, and Peninsula Agricultural Commission Liaison Once again, our region is faced with the challenge of proposals to develop agricultural land for residential purposes. The market value of farm land as potential real estate is a tempting cash infusion for farmers struggling to maintain a profit.  But this is a short-term solution.  [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Food tourism comes to Langford!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Food tourism comes to Langford! Langford is fortunate to be fairly close to the world-renowned destination for local food tourists &#8211; the Sooke Harbour House. A food tourist /journalist sought out the fine local food there, but also made a point of visiting a place in Langford where a foody feels at home. In a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Crown jewel of this continent</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[anonymous wrote: The following is a one-paragraph excerpt from the April issue of FOCUS Magazine by Gordon O’Connor p.15 who is the forest campaigner with the Dogwood Initiative. It just applies so beautifully to Langford that one cannot help but think of Langford while reading it. “Vancouver Island is one of the crown jewels of this [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Former agricultural land to become subdivision in Langford</title>
		<link>https://greenlangford.ca/news/former-agricultural-land-to-become-subdivision-in-langford</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former agricultural land to become subdivision in Langford BY BILL CLEVERLEY, TIMES COLONISTMARCH 16, 2010 A 501-unit subdivision on a 13.9 hectare parcel at 936 Flatman Ave. was given Langford council’s blessing Monday night following a low-key public hearing. To be known as McCormick Meadows, the proposal made by architect Herbert Kwan for Sydney and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Valley Lavender Farm celebrates 100 years this March 23 2010!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Valley Lavender &#38; Herbs &#124; 3505 Happy Valley Road &#124; Langford &#124; Telephone: 250.474.5767 The Happy Valley Lavender Farm celebrates 100 years this March 23 2010! One wonders what Lynda Dowling&#8217;s grandfather was thinking during his humble start walking the E &#38; N (now Galloping Goose) Railway line to check out this property in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Exclude ten Langford properties from the ALR (updated)</title>
		<link>https://greenlangford.ca/submissions/exclude-ten-langford-properties-from-the-alr-proposed</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten Langford properties seek removal from the ALR UPDATE: The Commission made its decision on March 16, 2010 and the decisions were sent out in April. See Details: http://greenlangford.ca/alr There was no public meeting. In an email to Bea McKenzie, Roger Cheetham, Regional ALC Planner for the Island, Kootenay, and the North, reports the expected [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Farmland freeze needed now</title>
		<link>https://greenlangford.ca/news/farmland-freeze-needed-now</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Farmland freeze needed now G.E.Mortimore From the Lower Island News, April/May 2010 B.C.&#8217;s Agricultural Land Commission has a moral duty to guard and improve the food supply.  So why do the commissioners shirk their duty? The law allows removal of pieces of land from the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) for well-documented reasons, but its main [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>ALR Land removal &#8211; Happy Valley Road</title>
		<link>https://greenlangford.ca/letters/alr-land-removal-happy-valley-road</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:03:23 -0800 From: Deb Harper Subject: ALR Land removal &#8211; Happy Valley Road To: mbaldwinATcityoflangford.ca To Whom It May Concern: As a resident in the Luxton area, and a local food advocate, I am writing to express my concern with the proposal to remove properties (the majority on Happy Valley Road) [&#8230;]]]></description>
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